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but it protect us as a country. people need to get over the fact that the government is not trying to listen in on every phone call. it is not a republican strategy to put obama in a bad light. .t is frustrating people need to get over it and realize that national security is not always as easy as they think it is going to be. >> he mentioned what he had to assign to do the work that he did. the bradley manning incident and the edward snowden incident, will it change the way they do contractors as well? >> the senate is looking into this. there is a ballooning national security structure that comes from having more and more classified. so much information is classified, so there is a big push to declassify a lot of information. the government has the mentality of when in doubt, classified it. it is easier to keep information classified than to make the calculations to be classified something and get it wrong and cause all sorts of issues in the agency. we have seen members of congress said that over classification n
but it protect us as a country. people need to get over the fact that the government is not trying to listen in on every phone call. it is not a republican strategy to put obama in a bad light. .t is frustrating people need to get over it and realize that national security is not always as easy as they think it is going to be. >> he mentioned what he had to assign to do the work that he did. the bradley manning incident and the edward snowden incident, will it change the way they do...
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using domain for your purposes. and i use to others upon command. that is how we talk about it. so, i get it. ok? i have no views on who may or may not have conducted the attack against -- with the stocks met -- with the virus, but my view is, it was a big deal. what i said is i understand the difference in destruction is dramatic but this has the whiff of august of 1945. somebody just used a new weapon. and this weapon will not be put back into the box. i get all of that. but you were probably were snowden, common of suggesting equivalency between american and chinese cyber behavior. there where you steal stuff, let me go on record. we steal stuff. we are really good at it. as director of the national security agency, i used to view that we were number one when it came to stealing stuff in the cyber domain. but we steal stuff to keep you free, we steal stuff to keep you safe. we do not steal stuff to make you rich. a big discriminator between ourselves and a whole bunch of other nationstate actors out there. tom? >> hi, general hayden. from npr. you seem to be pretty confident
using domain for your purposes. and i use to others upon command. that is how we talk about it. so, i get it. ok? i have no views on who may or may not have conducted the attack against -- with the stocks met -- with the virus, but my view is, it was a big deal. what i said is i understand the difference in destruction is dramatic but this has the whiff of august of 1945. somebody just used a new weapon. and this weapon will not be put back into the box. i get all of that. but you were probably...
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feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. congreso.net. you will hear from us. thank you so much. [applause] >> how big of a challenge has that been for you personally and the implementation in general? could you talk about how your own experience as a governor has and for negotiations on that? >> i would say that even in states where we may not have a governor's full support, the mayors have been extraordinary. they are often on the frontlines of delivering health care services and picking up the cost for and reimbursed care. as i have found that every place i have gone, texas, georgia, florida, and other states with a governor may not be all-in, the mayors are all in and members of congress. faithleaders and health care providers are very enthusiastic. there is always a team on the ground that is very yser -- eager to move forward. this law will work better in states where everyone wants it to work. as it is more challenging when there is more -- misinformation to have to put out. tell people that the law will apply to you. there are people that get up in texa
feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. congreso.net. you will hear from us. thank you so much. [applause] >> how big of a challenge has that been for you personally and the implementation in general? could you talk about how your own experience as a governor has and for negotiations on that? >> i would say that even in states where we may not have a governor's full support, the mayors have been extraordinary. they are often on the frontlines of delivering health...
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let us put it that way. i will take full accountability for that for our audience here and on the webcast. there are two things i would push you on. one is, how would you know if anyone had been harmed by abuse, given that the program is as secret as it is? among rumsfeld speaks about the unknown unknowns. how could anyone bring an action that would discover they have been disadvantaged in some way by this program? i will save the second question. >> if an american came forward and said, i all of a sudden lost my job. i was thrown in jail. i was questioned for 24 hours by fbi agents. i have no reason why this came up. i think it is because i came up mistakenly in this search, and i want to know about it. i think, in this great country of ours, with great reporters like you, us would have come out. >> there are a lot of people who lose a lot of jobs or are on the no-fly list, and all kinds of other things. if someone tells me as a reporter, i just know it is because i have been surveilled by a secret program
let us put it that way. i will take full accountability for that for our audience here and on the webcast. there are two things i would push you on. one is, how would you know if anyone had been harmed by abuse, given that the program is as secret as it is? among rumsfeld speaks about the unknown unknowns. how could anyone bring an action that would discover they have been disadvantaged in some way by this program? i will save the second question. >> if an american came forward and said,...
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we can use it to use whatever we need to do. primarily they are a deterrent force. they are a fourth multiplier. the navy does not have a choice. cannot recall who mentioned it. if you look at the u.s. navy budget and composition, 60 of the navy touches something that has to do with the aircraft carrier. that is what goes into it, the ships that say with it, etc. you can see the damage that would be done to our world wide forces. i reference the marine corps. we would be giving up a lot. we saw this partly in iraq. the inability for us to negotiate in any sort of military service for the long term would have ambushed with a lot of intelligence. in the region we would have had naval support as well. we gave it up to iran as part of the deal. >> help us out a bit. would you like to add to what she is already given us? >> great points. they're looking to do things differently. there's only so far this can possibly go. i will look at why the cuts that she alluded to would be too extreme. last spring a sequestration was about to hit. they decided not to send a second car
we can use it to use whatever we need to do. primarily they are a deterrent force. they are a fourth multiplier. the navy does not have a choice. cannot recall who mentioned it. if you look at the u.s. navy budget and composition, 60 of the navy touches something that has to do with the aircraft carrier. that is what goes into it, the ships that say with it, etc. you can see the damage that would be done to our world wide forces. i reference the marine corps. we would be giving up a lot. we saw...
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, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them so people whose houses happened to be flown over the privacy that is dated but we're focused on that surveillance, watching everybody all the time. we think drones have technology that has a lot of potential to do good and really it is in everybody's interest to pin down the privacy question, put in place common sense protection and we don't have to worry about privacy, that will free public safety agencies to use these technologies without the clout of big brother hanging over us. >> did you have something to say on that topic? >> this year, boston police department use an online system over th
, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them...
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tell us the context. she wrote, "i have the happiness of meeting with a variety of these misleaders who are either not gifted with common sense or have a sort of mind when which i have often met with utterly incapable of comprehending anything in a plain way, whether that's a natural defect in the formation of the brain, i will leave philosophers and metta physicians to decide." >> because campaigning is not allowed, john quincy can't come out and say i would like you to vote for me as president, the candidates can't do that and you can't ask for office directly, you have to kind of use these subtle back channels. women were a good conduit for that. and so people had louisa to spread their gossip, to ask for favors. she doesn't always -- she knows that she can't trust these people. she is not naive. a lot of them are spreading false gossip or false information. they're misleading. they all have their own agendas. she is aware of the political game that is going on. she is not terribly a fan of it. >> we w
tell us the context. she wrote, "i have the happiness of meeting with a variety of these misleaders who are either not gifted with common sense or have a sort of mind when which i have often met with utterly incapable of comprehending anything in a plain way, whether that's a natural defect in the formation of the brain, i will leave philosophers and metta physicians to decide." >> because campaigning is not allowed, john quincy can't come out and say i would like you to vote...
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you can also tweet us to use the hashtag #firstladies. here's a comment from our facebook page -- guest: really great question. we have a lot of bits of evidence that cumulatively show us that lucretia garfield was perhaps the first first lady to really have a strong conscientiousness about being part of a historical tradition of first ladies. in her diary, to my knowledge, the only diary kept by a first lady, she records an incident where one of her guests comes in and tells her about the night of the fall of richmond and being with mary lincoln. she writes in her diary that these little sorts of stories are the kinds of things she begins to accumulate and feels that there are some ghosts of the house. we will talk more about her later life -- she has a sense of sorority with the first ladies who came after her. host: on twitter -- guest: she thought of it as her home. in fact, later on when a well was being built in the back -- i can't remember, there was another structure -- sheallytude plans, and she was just incredibly interested in
you can also tweet us to use the hashtag #firstladies. here's a comment from our facebook page -- guest: really great question. we have a lot of bits of evidence that cumulatively show us that lucretia garfield was perhaps the first first lady to really have a strong conscientiousness about being part of a historical tradition of first ladies. in her diary, to my knowledge, the only diary kept by a first lady, she records an incident where one of her guests comes in and tells her about the...
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there were soldiers using profanity, myself using profanity. i think c-span did a little bit of luring. -- blurring. but it was a pretty graphic video which was on c-span, which is not crazy boundary pushing journalism trying to shock people. it is a responsible organization that broadcast that footage. is a lack of reality-based reporting on the wars? readers need to know where to find it, but it is definitely out there. >> thanks for your call. you mentioned the coverage of the incident we did. all of the video you shot for us over the years is available in our video library. where are you off to next? you are off to syria? going to will be northern syria, based in turkey, to cover the fighting in a city called aleppo. we will be trying to understand who the syrian rebels are, what they want, how america is increasingly becoming involved, and to spend some time with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been displaced to the conflict. thanks for joining us this evening. we appreciate it. we are looking at media coverage of wars. we h
there were soldiers using profanity, myself using profanity. i think c-span did a little bit of luring. -- blurring. but it was a pretty graphic video which was on c-span, which is not crazy boundary pushing journalism trying to shock people. it is a responsible organization that broadcast that footage. is a lack of reality-based reporting on the wars? readers need to know where to find it, but it is definitely out there. >> thanks for your call. you mentioned the coverage of the incident...
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i think the use of market, the use of money should be understood. it is something that balances the tendencies of human society to become dysfunctional. money also can be terrible and concentrate power and lead to terrible and fairness. i think this sort of these dual magisterium of society and economics can kind of balance each other's some worst failure modes. they can balance each other's torrance to some degree. this is a bit of a complex topic that won't go into, but i'll buy treated reasonably in the book. what i am thinking is so we can hope for from digital technology google a perfect society. i think in the attempt of perfection in since years. that will work. but sad to this process of balancing the system so that none of them can get too badly. i think of the way america is balance between a legislature in the judicial branch and an executive branch. it's an interesting and give weather hope is that each province the other from going off the deep and too much him. and for the most part it kind of works. sometimes we wish they would work t
i think the use of market, the use of money should be understood. it is something that balances the tendencies of human society to become dysfunctional. money also can be terrible and concentrate power and lead to terrible and fairness. i think this sort of these dual magisterium of society and economics can kind of balance each other's some worst failure modes. they can balance each other's torrance to some degree. this is a bit of a complex topic that won't go into, but i'll buy treated...
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so it can be used on occasion. (laughs.) mr. goodman: again, one of the advantages of being a specialist, i do the g-20. so i don?t have to worry about important things like russia and syria so much. i totally agree with that. i mean, i think that there very well may be things on the margins, where people pull aside ? certainly to talk ? but possibly to say things, announce things. but i ? just in a formal g-20 sense, there won?t ? i don?t think it will be in the communique. mr. kuchins: my image for this summit is kind of the hold-your- nose summit, for a lot of the participants. mr. goodman: that?s the headline. (laughter.) mr. kuchins: the baton death march. the bataan death march. mr. schwartz: questions? scott. q: dr. kuchins, when you said that it was a mistake for obama to make his remark about putin having one foot in the cold war, did you mean it was a mistake to say that out loud, or did you mean the assessment itself was a mistake? mr. kuchins: actually, i disagree with the assessment, as well. but i think the larger
so it can be used on occasion. (laughs.) mr. goodman: again, one of the advantages of being a specialist, i do the g-20. so i don?t have to worry about important things like russia and syria so much. i totally agree with that. i mean, i think that there very well may be things on the margins, where people pull aside ? certainly to talk ? but possibly to say things, announce things. but i ? just in a formal g-20 sense, there won?t ? i don?t think it will be in the communique. mr. kuchins: my...
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they voted no to help us. this is what we are dealing with in the congress of the united states right now. it goes beyond democrat republican, just people who don't see that we have an obligation to each other. this is the united states of america. we already had one civil war. we are not going to have another one. so we help one another to the best of our ability. and is not a perfect world you're not going to find it here. you just have to make the best of what you got and try to do it day in and day out. we know that the task force had 69 recommendations. i am 100% committed to get this done. i want to talk a little bit about the affordable care act. can we get that back up on the screen? jersey -- how does new journey -- how does new jersey benefit from the aca? here are the ways in which new jersey has already benefited. by getting lower drug costs. by saving millions in insurance company refunds. because that particular company went less in the 80% which is now the law. , that is whatsts it saved each pe
they voted no to help us. this is what we are dealing with in the congress of the united states right now. it goes beyond democrat republican, just people who don't see that we have an obligation to each other. this is the united states of america. we already had one civil war. we are not going to have another one. so we help one another to the best of our ability. and is not a perfect world you're not going to find it here. you just have to make the best of what you got and try to do it day in...
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let us breathe, let us live our lives, let us be americans. >> we are spending the evening asking our viewers and listeners whether they find town halls helpful. as a congressman, do you find these meetings helpful? >> absolutely. we are unique because of how large our district is. we have 26 counties. there are a few congressmen and congress women that have a larger district than that, but the only way we can communicate effectively with everybody is through town hall meetings. there isn't a media source that andcan cover our entire district. we have to go to them. in our campaign, what we heard over and over again was people said the only time they ever saw their congressman was during the campaign cycles. that is not who we are. we want to make sure we are accountable to the individual and the only way we can be accountable is to make sure that we stand in front of them and hold ourselves accountable. host: this is your first opportunity. you were elected last november. how does this feel compared to campaigning? >> it probably feels a little bit better because we are in a situatio
let us breathe, let us live our lives, let us be americans. >> we are spending the evening asking our viewers and listeners whether they find town halls helpful. as a congressman, do you find these meetings helpful? >> absolutely. we are unique because of how large our district is. we have 26 counties. there are a few congressmen and congress women that have a larger district than that, but the only way we can communicate effectively with everybody is through town hall meetings....
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but something is holding us back. something is holding us back. and to me, it's the group in congress. obstructionism and extremism that's holding us back and preventing too many americans from realizing the promise of america. look at the crew that graced your state in the past two months talking about shutting the government down again. their goal, they want to cause one big government traffic jam. the only problem -- they won't pay for the roads and bridges to get it out of it. there are two things that really bug me about this obstructionism. first, they seem to forget these are real people that would be affected by these moves. and even in the midst of the recovery, we all know people. the kid in cedar rapids who wants to become a teacher but can't afford college. the dad who lost his jobs at the kraft foods in mason city and wants to be retrained but can't quite get the right program so he gettings it skills to go back to work to support his family. or the family in waterloo who's working harder and harder and harder to pay that mortgage. i
but something is holding us back. something is holding us back. and to me, it's the group in congress. obstructionism and extremism that's holding us back and preventing too many americans from realizing the promise of america. look at the crew that graced your state in the past two months talking about shutting the government down again. their goal, they want to cause one big government traffic jam. the only problem -- they won't pay for the roads and bridges to get it out of it. there are two...
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its use. it is silly to worry about something about that. there are so many more important is to talk about. >> you drew the contrast with juliet tyler who brought dancing to the white house. who ended her brief tenure by throwing a huge party as they left the white house. was sarah polk more in touch with the times? >> sarah polk -- it has been called an imperial presidency. meaning that the couple fought the office of the presidency and the white house as the official executive residence needed to be highly respected. it was more formal protocol and so on. it was a very liberal approach. you could come with an introduction to any of their receptions. polk was a democrat. at the same time, they were well dressed, there were more formal dinners. there were multiple courses. it was considered an honor to be at the white house. basically, sarah polk said, dancing at the white house is not dignified. >> she was known for frugality. the president making a $25,000 a year salary, and expenses for th
its use. it is silly to worry about something about that. there are so many more important is to talk about. >> you drew the contrast with juliet tyler who brought dancing to the white house. who ended her brief tenure by throwing a huge party as they left the white house. was sarah polk more in touch with the times? >> sarah polk -- it has been called an imperial presidency. meaning that the couple fought the office of the presidency and the white house as the official executive...
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could you tell us about that? >> he did appoint frederick douglass as the marshall of the city of washington, dc. he was very aware it was symbolic.a gesture on his part. he also had african-americans appointed to a number of positions in the south, mainly. the hayeses were also the first to have a black opera singer performed for them in the white house, and had some other black performers on their saturday performances in the white house. >> many people are interested. we talk about the fact she helped with the funds to finish the washington monument. you earlier mentioned her interest in orphans of the civil war. what other causes was she involved in? >> she was interested in mental health, as well. in terms of the sanitation and treatment that we today would consider to be shellshocked soldiers. she would care a lot about veterans' pensions, if they were disabled. there are wonderful records of when she would care for people, who were -- and this is before she was really a first lady, when she would still be i
could you tell us about that? >> he did appoint frederick douglass as the marshall of the city of washington, dc. he was very aware it was symbolic.a gesture on his part. he also had african-americans appointed to a number of positions in the south, mainly. the hayeses were also the first to have a black opera singer performed for them in the white house, and had some other black performers on their saturday performances in the white house. >> many people are interested. we talk...
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thank you for joining us. guest: people look at the bill and so the democrats voted in favor of the senate immigration bill. we may not see the same results in the house just because there are some democrats who come from conservative leaning districts in may the has a tent with certain aspects of immigration. some members who belong to coalitions like the blue dog coalition, and new democrats, some have reservations about what to do with the 11 million people who are illegal immigrants living in the united states. that is the most controversial aspect of what the house is going to do. they have concerns that reflect a lot of the same concerns the more moderate rubble consent. host: whatever piece of legislation set,, speaker boehner is going to need every democrat he can to pass it. >> and these democrats maybe more willing to vote with what a centrist will be. it is hard to tell at this point. we do not know what the contours will be of a house bill dealing with legalization. some democrats are wanting to st
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nobody had used that term. it was a little bit of insight that whatever happened in the mind is registered in the brain. you can't have a mental event without a brain representation. our could you? after the brain is what made the event. the brain representation is in the form of electrochemical event. there's nothing that happens in the brain that is not registered in the body. these chemicals, neuro peptides. the education centuries presentation i have a gut feeling made sense. it was molecule of emotion. he would tell you the gut makes the same chemical the brain does. this is a scientific background. the body of information. and the information is -- [inaudible] it's from consciousness. any physician will tell you you have two patients who get the same treatment who see the same doctor, have the same ill p -- illness and different outcome. the prognosis wouldn't be called proking in sis is -- [inaudible] people on this side and people on this side. and you can accurately make a diagnose is. you can never ac
nobody had used that term. it was a little bit of insight that whatever happened in the mind is registered in the brain. you can't have a mental event without a brain representation. our could you? after the brain is what made the event. the brain representation is in the form of electrochemical event. there's nothing that happens in the brain that is not registered in the body. these chemicals, neuro peptides. the education centuries presentation i have a gut feeling made sense. it was...
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tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy is politically induced. [applause] >> so, the question is what is the role of secrecy and diplomacy? and extended from that, what are your feelings about mr. snowden and the relations between the united states and russia now that he has been granted -- >> i thought it was a friendly audience? [laughter] i know that, look, i will give you what i think. i may be wrong about all of this. i think there's a real tension, and always has been, but particularly in a globalized, highly integrated internet society of the type we have now. there's a tension between s
tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy...
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use. if you do that you don't get thrown in jail if you go to a treatment center and try to get some how. and you also keep details from being full of people who are caught smoking marijuana or something. throw people in jail and all you do is make criminals out of them. amazingly, they're even getting drugs in jail. so we should take a different approach. it is so vitally important for people not to take these drugs. it's bad for society. and you can do things. like it will we've done in this country. there still people. but much, much less than before because we have had a fact based campaign, not just advertising, but a campaign to persuade people not to smoke. i remember the day when they have the advertisements. i'd walk around. a pretty girl saying something. right now if he sees somebody smoking you think there's somebody wrong with them -- something wrong with them. so the whole atmosphere is changed. that can happen. all kinds of things can be done beyond what we're doing. earlier
use. if you do that you don't get thrown in jail if you go to a treatment center and try to get some how. and you also keep details from being full of people who are caught smoking marijuana or something. throw people in jail and all you do is make criminals out of them. amazingly, they're even getting drugs in jail. so we should take a different approach. it is so vitally important for people not to take these drugs. it's bad for society. and you can do things. like it will we've done in this...
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it's an opportune to use these technology skills that you've got to help us find and put us in contact with families who had veterans or displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years ago and become in the next five to 10 years when we lose the rest of our world war ii veterans. i lost my dad five years ago. the things that are hanging on walls in basements and in attics, they will all have a new owner. we are at great risk for these things and four leverages our old musty documents of being thrown away. this is the chance to help with the tip of the iceberg we're getting ready now to see the last, help things get back to the people they belong to. so it's a great moment, and so for that reason we're spending a lot of time with the work of on the foundation, and the film coming up. i'll be headed back to berlin, and when i'm done with the book tour here, and then doing whatever i'm asked to do by the people involved with that as the fall picture, but really the work focuses now on the foundation. the writing of the book is something that i do. the foundation,
it's an opportune to use these technology skills that you've got to help us find and put us in contact with families who had veterans or displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years ago and become in the next five to 10 years when we lose the rest of our world war ii veterans. i lost my dad five years ago. the things that are hanging on walls in basements and in attics, they will all have a new owner. we are at great risk for these things and four leverages our old...
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all of us on twitter, find us. but to me if we'll talk about leadership, tj, we should demand every form now to say what do you do in the committee on a regular basis? [applause] >> this mean i've got to get my cell phone number out? >> you famous. spank you are trying to get in there. go ahead. >> on kevin's first point, and i think this is important about two calls that come don't get mad. how many of us on the state are under 30? right. here's my point. right now we are sitting at the table. we are not kids like we're grown people. i'm a grown woman, right? >> we all have kids. >> i don't have kids but i'm over 30. i am 33. my point is it's time now for these kids table conversation. there are young people in high school who can be right up your talking to i don't even want to call them kids but i think it's really, really important is to make a brought organization. organizations, even with -- they are young ladies, young women who are the right hand of an organization we had come as terrific but there are also
all of us on twitter, find us. but to me if we'll talk about leadership, tj, we should demand every form now to say what do you do in the committee on a regular basis? [applause] >> this mean i've got to get my cell phone number out? >> you famous. spank you are trying to get in there. go ahead. >> on kevin's first point, and i think this is important about two calls that come don't get mad. how many of us on the state are under 30? right. here's my point. right now we are...
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now we use hispanic broadly. i'm an american, so i use it central and south americans. asians have outnumbered them in term of the lawful migration system. and the gulf is getting wider every and every year. asia is the new source going forward of immigrants to the united states. it's going the new historical dynamic. so i predict my kid, when they are adults. they will look back and say, alex, why were so many people upset about his cantic or mexican immigrant. it's absurd. these indians or, you know, these southeast asians. they are different. they are taking our jobs this time. that's when i'm going to hear, i think, in the future not only from my kids if i have done a poor job educating them but also people in society. >> it's fascinating and encouraging discussion. i hope our friends on capitol hill pay attention to the points made today and read out of the book on sale here at the discount for all of you interested. thank you all for coming. please, join me in thanking our great speakers today. [applause] >> a luncheon following upstairs. sanjiv.me to years befo a
now we use hispanic broadly. i'm an american, so i use it central and south americans. asians have outnumbered them in term of the lawful migration system. and the gulf is getting wider every and every year. asia is the new source going forward of immigrants to the united states. it's going the new historical dynamic. so i predict my kid, when they are adults. they will look back and say, alex, why were so many people upset about his cantic or mexican immigrant. it's absurd. these indians or,...
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some of us were able to go up and out. others of us could not. and so, we cleaved into two parts i think even then and i am not sure that those institutions that fought so hard at one time have fought the same tenacious battles for those who remain stuck today. so we have got the largest prison population in the world. over 2 million people, of the largest in the world-3/4 of those who face the death penalty are black and hispanic. half of the prison population is black. because of the way people's lives have been involved but also because of the unfairness in our criminal justice system. we see that for non-violent drug crimes. we constitute 14% of those who commit those crimes but roughly if i still have the figures right, if something like that a 6% of those prosecuted and close to 75% of those incarcerated. one sentence for a pound of cocaine and another sentence for crack-cocaine. the pound is essentially what white people used. the sentence is much lower than it is for crack-cocaine which is what black people have used. so the system is unf
some of us were able to go up and out. others of us could not. and so, we cleaved into two parts i think even then and i am not sure that those institutions that fought so hard at one time have fought the same tenacious battles for those who remain stuck today. so we have got the largest prison population in the world. over 2 million people, of the largest in the world-3/4 of those who face the death penalty are black and hispanic. half of the prison population is black. because of the way...
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for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it right in the beginning. >> host: and finally, senator smith, last week on this program senator mark pryor, who's the chair of a commerce subcommittee, we asked him about whether or not the '96 telecom act needs to be updated and overhauled, and he expressed some reservations about that because it would open this can of worms, etc., etc., etc. from the nab's point of view -- >> guest: i suppose be, i never voted for a perfect law. they were always the product of compromise and trade-offs, and there's not
for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it...
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what they're used to. they have all been competing for that, and they -- everything that's what employers want. frankly, i think we've got a whole lot more out of me writing evaluations of them in a more detailed way that talks about their strengths and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation and a letter grade. >> do you find a difference between students who take out student loans are students who have their parents pay for it or have -- >> not that, but i do find a difference between students to work and those who don't. so the students who are working, this is their money, write-in. students to take out the loans, it is eventually going to be their money, but to them it's kind of summer in the future. those who are working, they're putting in the sweat equity right now to get the education, and i think that they're generally more since students, and they certainly demand more of all of us in the classroom. >> in the book, "how to succeed in college," you have a
what they're used to. they have all been competing for that, and they -- everything that's what employers want. frankly, i think we've got a whole lot more out of me writing evaluations of them in a more detailed way that talks about their strengths and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation and a letter grade. >> do you find a difference between students who take out student loans are students who have their parents pay for it or have -- >>...
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they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has this kind of psychosis, this anxiety about its relationship with america, its mission to put in the of. so many different ways have been tried. .. here is what i don't think we should do. i think we have engaged with pakistan and its best mudlick way so what happens is 1971 we have a relationship earlier during the cold war because pakistan's geography and the fact that they were essentially on our side made them very good partners there. when we wanted wet henry kissinger wanted to go into china they were useful to help him get into china secretly
they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has...
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and we've reelected you to not only represent us, but to fight for us. and because of that we need men and women that have courage, who are not looking for excuses. the heritage foundation, freedom works all have some arguments on why obamacare should be defunded. some my question to you is, have you sat down with any of these organizations to discuss this so that, perhaps, your opinion would be changed? if you have not, would you please consider doing so? >> i have dinner every tuesday night with jim demint, the head of heritage foundation. i live with mike lee and mark arubia, two people that are behind this. they claim that because you won't sign a letter you are for obamacare is utterly ridiculous. i don't disagree we need to get rid of obamacare. i disagree with the tactic. you don't set a strategy out to, in fact, try to accomplish something ignoring the couple of realistic facts. one is the only way you get rid of obamacare is with 67 votes in the u.s. senate. and two-thirds of the house of representatives. unless obama is this going to roll over
and we've reelected you to not only represent us, but to fight for us. and because of that we need men and women that have courage, who are not looking for excuses. the heritage foundation, freedom works all have some arguments on why obamacare should be defunded. some my question to you is, have you sat down with any of these organizations to discuss this so that, perhaps, your opinion would be changed? if you have not, would you please consider doing so? >> i have dinner every tuesday...
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that may be less true for us today. we have gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago to where about two-thirds are pursuing some form of education after high school and this obviously changes everything in the economics of higher education. and it seems to have produced as today's book suggests a debt-financed glut of b.a. holders. many of us like bill and david did have noticed it parallels to our debt-financed glut of houses and condos when it comes to higher education finance. our debt financing is especially a problem if what is being financed is consumption, not investment. if as it has been suggested for a large number of students college is not an investment but consumption, four fun filled years before they have to settle down to a adult life. these and many more interesting and challenging problems of college education, college invocation, runaway college costs and the debt explosion financing them are discussed in this insightful and practical book. for bill and da
that may be less true for us today. we have gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago to where about two-thirds are pursuing some form of education after high school and this obviously changes everything in the economics of higher education. and it seems to have produced as today's book suggests a debt-financed glut of b.a. holders. many of us like bill and david did have noticed it parallels to our debt-financed glut of houses and condos when it...
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they failed us. we have looked to our congressmen to do that, and to your credit, 40 times you guys have come instead to get rid of it. in santee, definition of is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just you know, who is going to win the political powerpoint if we shut down government. it's going to be what will the future of the country are look like in a decade because once the tentacles are there it's, it's, it's too late to been dialed it back. look at social security. i think that is worth that risk. i also don't think it would come to that. >> well, i think it would come to that. and -- [inaudible] >> if i can finish my point. i think it would come to that and i don't think it would work. look, we can do as you suggest, that's no problem passing the original bill without it. that's fine but it's not going anyplace in the united states senate. it will have an attached to it and it will come back. at that point i rea
they failed us. we have looked to our congressmen to do that, and to your credit, 40 times you guys have come instead to get rid of it. in santee, definition of is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just you know, who is going to win the political powerpoint if we shut down government. it's going to be what will the future of the country are look like in a decade because once the tentacles are there it's, it's,...
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us? >> thank you so much, ellen to you and stimson college, first of all for orchestrating this conversation. to use the adjective in your invitation, this is a messy issue, and we're discussing it at a messy time. as we all know, the o.i.f. era is fading. there are still chronic violence and instability that affects various parts of the world, and yet large scale stabilization and reconstruction activities are not well beloved, either by would be recipients or by would be suppliers. it is a huge challenge. i think it is an enduring issue, but it is a very messy time. so to navigate up toward stuart's proposal, let me give a little bit of context here. those of us working on stabilization issues in the last few years have really been focused on three urgent emergent issues. the first is the retrospective piece. looking back at the lessons. ere i give a big shoutout to stuart and colleagues for all they have known the iraq context to really explicate good solid lessons from the field. your
us? >> thank you so much, ellen to you and stimson college, first of all for orchestrating this conversation. to use the adjective in your invitation, this is a messy issue, and we're discussing it at a messy time. as we all know, the o.i.f. era is fading. there are still chronic violence and instability that affects various parts of the world, and yet large scale stabilization and reconstruction activities are not well beloved, either by would be recipients or by would be suppliers. it...
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you'll be hearing from us. thank you so much. >> can you talk a little bit about how your own experience as a dwove nor has formed your negotiation on this? >> i would say even in states where we may not have governor's support the marries have been extraordinary. they are often on the front lines of delivering healthcare services and picking up the cost for unreimbursed care. i have found every place i've gone, texas and georgia and florida and other states where the governor may not be all in, the marries are all in, members of congress are all in, faith leaders and healthcare providers are enthusiastic. so there is a team on the ground who is eager to move forward. clearly this law will work better in states where everybody wants it to work. it is more challenging when there is misinformation put out on a regular basis where you have to tell people the law will apply to you. there are people who get up in texas who think the law won't even work in that state. so getting that information out. i think as a for
you'll be hearing from us. thank you so much. >> can you talk a little bit about how your own experience as a dwove nor has formed your negotiation on this? >> i would say even in states where we may not have governor's support the marries have been extraordinary. they are often on the front lines of delivering healthcare services and picking up the cost for unreimbursed care. i have found every place i've gone, texas and georgia and florida and other states where the governor may...
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, that they are with us, that they are supporting us, that's why gives us fuel to keep going. we have that drive, because just like trayvon is our son, i'm sure you have children, you have grandchildren, you have nieces and nephews that you have to care about as well. and it's very difficult that trayvon wasn't committing any crime. he was on his way home from the store. so how many other teenagers go to the store? that's how close it will hit home. that's my message, don't wait, don't wait until it's at your front door. don't wait until something happens to your child, your niece, your nephew, your grandson, granddaughter, godson. don't wait. this is the time to act now. this is the time to get involved, and don't just say, i support the foundation, i support the family. i think they're doing a great job. that's good, but it has to be more than that. we've created, through the negative images, and we had them, too, so it's negative energy when you're disappointed, is negative energy when you have a loss. we took that negative energy, and that's what we used to great the trayv
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us. please welcome the ceo of the king center, bernice. >> good afternoon, everybody. i know it's late and i have two minutes they told me. but i first want to thank the national urban league for the tremendous work that they have been doing over a century. and we could not have made its had not been for the urban league. so i want to thank them to the time honored to be here this afternoon a part of the coalition that has been planning the 50th anniversary celebration. and i wanted to just say something that i say quite often when we look at the convergence of so many things that happened this year the mirror that happened in 63 and in many respects it makes some of us feel like we have been setbacks it may be true but it may not be true as well. it could be a tremendous opportunity in a set up for us to really organize and mobilize and really create the momentum that happened in 63. but my mother had a quote where she set struggle is a never-ending process. freedom is never really run.
us. please welcome the ceo of the king center, bernice. >> good afternoon, everybody. i know it's late and i have two minutes they told me. but i first want to thank the national urban league for the tremendous work that they have been doing over a century. and we could not have made its had not been for the urban league. so i want to thank them to the time honored to be here this afternoon a part of the coalition that has been planning the 50th anniversary celebration. and i wanted to...
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president, send us social -- send us a mandate down from the grand chapter and tell us what, point us in a direction and send it out and let us go out and do it. i've been doing stuff with the fraternity and working with the zeta's for years and he's. so send us out something to do. give us some direction. secondly, i want to mention is, in 1963 our kids, when black boys are coming out of high school, the folks on the local board were there to give us our -- we were conscripted to the army. and the local board just ripped our families apart. took our youngsters and send them off to vietnam. and now, it's not the local board anymore, but it's the courthouse we are sending our kids off to prison. part of the mandate that i'm going to ask for is what of it going to do with that great mass of people who are incarcerated, who are coming out of the prison, and having nothing to do? and how are we going to help them? and i think that that's a focus because that's a lot of people that we can conscripted to do things that will be positive in the community. >> let me respond to what he said. th
president, send us social -- send us a mandate down from the grand chapter and tell us what, point us in a direction and send it out and let us go out and do it. i've been doing stuff with the fraternity and working with the zeta's for years and he's. so send us out something to do. give us some direction. secondly, i want to mention is, in 1963 our kids, when black boys are coming out of high school, the folks on the local board were there to give us our -- we were conscripted to the army. and...
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none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do it. in a year or two. it takes time. and one of the things we've got to have is sort after temporal sense. how long is it going to take to do these things? what are the right things to be looking at sort of year in, year out, that demonstrate progress? there's a tendency here very much to look at, for example, the fine work of this report and say, well, if you can't do it within six months it is not worth doing. you really have to have a long view. it takes time, it takes efforts. that's where we're finding in many o
none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do...
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when we look at welfare use. we typical look at the household and foreign born headed households have much higher welfare usage and the reason is that, you know, they tend to be poor and tend to lack health insurance. their children get state health insurance benefit. from talking to people i've heard that naturalize in order to use the family reunification. they can sponsor family for immigration. can you comment on that? >> that's a big reason why people take the step to become naturalized. i've been doing the work for twenty five years. i found in the late' 80s and the early '90s that was the major reason. as a u.s. citizens you can e petition for your relatives more quickly than a lawful resident. but since proposition 187 in my home state of california and the anti-immigrant sentiment more and more people have been accelerating naturalization to vote. >> i'm a journalist and have the last session going to be lightening round. you get one or two sentences each. i want do you back up away from the benefits fro
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follow us. please remain seated -- seated until the energy secretary has left the room that we can all live together. thank you for coming today. [inaudible conversations] >> the center for strategic and international studies, hosting a panel of the upcoming g20000000 president obama's visit to sweden here on c-span2 at 830 eastern. also a national press club newsmaker discussion on the future of democracy in egypt and at 10:00, companion and work, of going online security secretary janet nepal, will give a farewell speech at the national press club. she served as a head for the permits as 2009 and is leaving to be president of the university of california. the author of captain audience. challenging everything you know about trucks and society. the book stranger wills, 1979. >> next susan crawford talks about her book captive audience, the telecom industry a monopoly power. she argues that america's economic future could be threatened by other countries that have the internet capabilities that
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it forces us to think about history can you tell us what his next? >> i am interested in the thousands of orders since the beginning of civilization. but what gives the romans to say that that is not enough. why do they say that is it. they are frightening concepts. i'm looking at the cases that talk about the existential destruction with all of these residents and we are looking at nuclear iran. we are looking at the exit central and of all things. >> host: thank you for your contribution. >> guest: thank you for having me today. >> booktv's book club returns next month with this town, to parties and a funeral plus plenty of parking. read the book and engage on her facebook page and look for daily book club hosts to get the conversation going, including links to interviews of the author and reviews of the author from the booktv archives. >> during chuck hagel's news conference on monday with his chinese counterpart commenters asked about the situation in egypt. you can see the entire event online at c-span.org. here is some of what he said. >> i kno
it forces us to think about history can you tell us what his next? >> i am interested in the thousands of orders since the beginning of civilization. but what gives the romans to say that that is not enough. why do they say that is it. they are frightening concepts. i'm looking at the cases that talk about the existential destruction with all of these residents and we are looking at nuclear iran. we are looking at the exit central and of all things. >> host: thank you for your...
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we used to have the right of boycotts. we used to use boycotts to make a difference. political rights and policies are all well and good, but what america listens to is where money is spent and where it is not spent, and if there's anything we should learn from the civil rights movement, with the busboy cots and economic boycotts is we have power. if we have a dime in our pocket, we have power as to where we spend that dime. it's time for us to rebuild, reclaim our communities. .. [applause] >> so for this next section what i'm going to do is we have a limited amount of time is i'm going to start with you on the end and we will go this way. let's use the table mike so we don't have the problem of getting up and down. before i turn it over to you one of the things that i think is so important to things i heard they were so important as idea of our rights of white cotton process to make our voices heard and moral monday and how important it is then. that's important because that rightness politicians. that frightens them into thinking oh my goodness i might be held acco
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give us an overview. at least for the moment ahead, although the poll also indicates that voters are not too happy about qaeda can it. >> that's correct. this is really the big race in 2013. this is the one that national republicans and democrats are going to look at and look for clues about the future electoral environment in 2014 elections. this is a race that is expected to be close the route. one of the few poles that has shown one candidate with the lead outside the margin of error . another poll that shows the republican a lead. but at think the main thing about this race and what people are recognizing is that these are to candid it's running up against each other and both have their flaws. a political newcomer. he did not run a very strong campaign four years ago. some questions about -- some ethical questions with them. as more and more a swing state. for an ally in this poll he does show a small need. very early in this race and i expect it to be a lot of attention on this campaign going forward
give us an overview. at least for the moment ahead, although the poll also indicates that voters are not too happy about qaeda can it. >> that's correct. this is really the big race in 2013. this is the one that national republicans and democrats are going to look at and look for clues about the future electoral environment in 2014 elections. this is a race that is expected to be close the route. one of the few poles that has shown one candidate with the lead outside the margin of error ....